Tellabs announced Multiple Dwelling Unit (MDU) support for its Tellabs 1600 Series Optical Network Terminal (ONT) product line. This capability enables service providers to leverage existing wiring in multi-dwelling buildings, such as apartment complexes or university residence halls, in Fiber-to-the-Premises (FTTP) deployments.

While analysts expect IPTV services to generate more than $600 million in 2009, ILC and Envivio Inc. have teamed to help service providers make these predictions a reality.(a) Pairing ILC's network control software MaxView with Envivio's complete line of MPEG-4 encoders, middleware and decoders, the two companies have created solutions that allow service providers to quickly and cost-efficiently rollout and fully manage premium IPTV services such as video on demand (VoD), digital video recording (DVR) and interactive TV (iTV).

Tut Systems Inc. announced that Star Telephone is moving rapidly towards commercial deployment of its triple play service offering after an extensive trial utilizing Tut Systems' Astria content processor MPEG-4 AVC solution. Star Telephone expects to launch commercial services in 1Q 2006 after placing a recent order for long-awaited MPEG-4 AVC set top boxes.

Path 1 Network Technologies Inc. announced a new suite of intelligent hardware and software for video quality protection based on Path 1's proven carrier-class technologies. With Path 1's solution, telecom carriers and IP set-top box manufacturers can eliminate network errors that might impair video quality and the reliable delivery of IP television services over xDSL networks. Path 1 will debut its Vx8000 IPTV video gateway designed for Telco video head-ends in an end-to-end demonstration featuring the market-leading DiviCom multi-codec encoders from Harmonic Inc. as well as the world's first implementation of standards-based forward error correction (FEC) on a consumer IP set-top box (STB). This new solution will be presented November 9 - 10, 2005 at TelcoTV in San Diego in Harmonic's booth (#606).

SecureMedia, Inc. and InfoValue Computing, Inc. jointly announced that InfoValue has licensed SecureMedia's Encryptonite System CA/DRM software for integration with InfoValue QuickVideo, a state-of-the art video streaming platform for Telco and MDU/hospitality IPTV service providers. The Encryptonite System will provide content encryption and user rights management for secure delivery of Hollywood VOD and Broadcast IPTV content through the QuickVideo platform.

Kasenna announced a breakthrough in streaming video-on-demand (VOD) performance that enables service providers and cable operators to slash deployment and management costs for "metro-scale" triple play offerings. Using mainstream web-farm style clustering technologies with built-in redundancy and reliability, the cluster can power a half-million subscriber deployment from a single video head office (VHO) using MPEG-4 (AVC) streams encoded at 2.3 Mbps. The benchmark tests used 12 dual processor servers based on the 64-bit Intel Xeon processor (3.4 GHz) powered by Kasenna MediaBase version 8.1 software that incorporates hybrid RAM/Disk streaming. Achieving 135 Gbps of streaming capacity, which equated to 57,600 MPEG-4 streams at 2.3 Mbps per stream and 36,000 MPEG-2 streams using 3.75 Mbps encoding (Cable Labs specification), the performance characteristics from this benchmark are unprecedented in the industry.

ECI Telecom announced that Ringgold Telephone Company (RTC), a local exchange service provider in Georgia, USA, has selected ECI Telecom's ST-200 multiservice edge router to support its interactive entertainment and IPTV video services over DSL. Ringgold selected ECI's ST-200 multiservice edge router for its flexibility to add new services such as VoIP, for its support of a variety of Ethernet densities and for its scalability.

Arroyo Video Solutions, Inc. announced that it will demonstrate for the first time its comprehensive on demand services solution for IPTV at this week's TelcoTV Conference & Expo in San Diego, Calif., November 9-10, in booth #413.

Juniper Networks, Inc. announced that Dutch service provider Versatel has selected Juniper Networks routing platforms for its new broadband services network. As the first service provider in the Netherlands to offer advanced voice, video and data -- or Triple Play -- services over DSL, Versatel is providing its ADSL customers with services that include Voice over IP (VoIP), IPTV, video on demand, and televised live sporting events, such as national league soccer.

Wave7 Optics, Inc. announced that Comporium Communications, the nation's 20th largest incumbent local exchange carrier and 50th largest cable TV provider, will deploy the Last Mile Link (LML) system from Wave7 Optics for an expansion of its fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) network into the Pulte Homes 3,500-home "Sun City Carolina Lakes" residential development near Charlotte. Pulte Homes is the nation's largest new home builder by revenue.

Westell Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of broadband access products, gateways and conferencing services, announces that it has joined two leading associations dedicated to the advancement of video and digital entertainment throughout the home: the Multimedia over Coax Alliance (MoCA) and the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions' (ATIS) IPTV Interoperability Forum (IIF). Westell's membership in these premier organizations reinforces and exemplifies the company's continued commitment to meeting broadband service providers' needs for reliable, standards-based technology required to deliver video services.

Tut Systems Inc. will showcase its industry-leading MPEG-4 AVC solutions for encoding and transcoding at booth 406 November 9-10 at TelcoTV Conference & Expo 2005. In addition, the company is pleased to announce the availability of a fully-integrated, tested and deployed Digital Program Insertion Solution.

SkyStream announced that it had strong new customer wins in its third fiscal quarter (Q3) of 2005, including more than 10 new telco customers in the U.S., EMEA and APAC regions, and increased demand for zBand, SkyStream's content delivery software.

Westell Technologies, Inc. announces advanced ADSL2+ technology on its UltraLine video router. The addition of an improved ADSL2+ platform supports the expanding video initiatives of service providers by increasing the data transmission rate up to 25 Mbps and improving the video picture quality.

"What we have is the ability to emulate individual subscriber traffic from thousands of households with a triple play mix of Internet TV viewers, VoIP calls and high speed internet traffic" says Robert Winters, co-founder and CMO of Shenick Network Systems.